Who am I kidding... I'm not going anywhere. I'll roll with whatever Cakewalk does. I've never been treated poorly by Cakewalk so I'll give whatever is decided a chance and more.
 
BTW X4 link: X4
 
J

Off topic I know but,
I wish Cakewalk would add Gift Cards to buy. My wife knows I like Cakewalk products and it would be an
easy gift to get me.

If they need money, charge for special updates and features.  For instance, I would not mind paying $$ for more color options.

joden
What will be funny, is the egg on faces if CW do move in this direction. Maybe these comments should be bookmarked for when CW "heavies"  come out at a later date and say it will be subs based after all. Well they could always trot out the old line  "...well we believed what we were saying at the time..."  that amongst a plethora of other "valid reasons and excuses" for CW being forced down the (subscription) path

 
Great, definitely bookmark this thread :)
 

Holy jeebuz, can we get all these threads merged already? 

I'm just getting a chuckle reading these threads on an android and seeing a big blue button after thr last post that says "subscribe"! :)

Glad Noel weighed in.
My experience with subscriptions is that the vendor touts "more frequents updates" but new features are added with about the same frequency, roughly once per year.
I support CW operating as efficiently as possible in all of our interests.

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]

paulo

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
 
 
This survey wasn't about a bunch of bean counters trying to maximize profits. It's about us understanding how customers use our software and other products in the market place. Pure market research. And the goal is to help improve SONAR and also make the experience better for customers. 

I remain curious as to why you don't ask all of them ?

That's literally impossible to do...some customers don't want to be contacted or don't open their emails. We worked with some pros to figure out the right amount that would make it statistically significant. We've definitely done that. We feel good about the data we received.
 
The interesting thing is that the answers really didn't change much over time. The first 100 people answered about the same way the first 1000 did and so on.

I'm still not sure why you don't get emails. We've tried to fix the problem a few times. PM your current email again and I'll see what we can do to fix it.

Thanks for responding. I get that not everyone will reply or even open the email. I'm not particularly bothered that you didn't ask me as opposed to someone else, I just wondered if it's not everyone, then how do you select which people to ask ? By not giving all your forum members whose details you have the opportunity to take part do you not run the risk of making them feel like second rate customers whose opinions don't count, especially as you also then reward the chosen few for being picked ? Obviously I haven't seen the questions, so I don't know how they are framed, but I was just thinking that a pro or power user would probably have a different set of priorities and opinions than a part -time, spare room wannabe like me, so which do you target / do you even know who is who when you send the email ? 
 
 

backwoods
 
I wasn't privy to the behind the curtain machinations of the Gibson buyout, so I don't know the details of the timeline. But based on what Noel was saying earlier- 3 or months 4 squashing bugs then moving onto bnext version- wouldn't that mean X3 was made under Roland's watch. Very possibly I am totally wrong on this point :) But If I am not, it weould be quite insulting to claim X3 was Gibson's doing alone.

First of all, any software is Cakewalk's doing. I guess saying "post-Gibson X3" wasn't sufficiently clear. By that I meant what happened with X3 post-Gibson. There were a lot of complaints that X2 was abandoned after X2a, whereas after X3 there were multiple updates and continued forward motion. I do believe that had a lot to do with Gibson's vote of confidence in, and support of, Cakewalk. They moved to new quarters, were immediately given authorization to hire more people, and Henry gave me the slack to work with Cakewalk as much as possible given my other obligations.
 
Roland is a fine and innovative company. Downloads for the V-Studio remain available and if it breaks, Roland will fix it. The TTS-1 is still a welcome part of SONAR. But "fit" matters, and it's important not to underestimate the value of Gibson's CEO being a huge fan of Cakewalk and SONAR. Some would say I've kinda been helpful, too 

Speaking of "fit," I should also add that it's not just a "Gibson" thing...TASCAM and Cakewalk get along really well and I'm sure that will lead to good things in the future (as one current example, the new US-2x2 and 4x4 interfaces were tested extensively with SONAR), and a lot of the Gibson USA players are switching to SONAR...not because they have to, they just dig it. I believe there will be more examples of cross-pollination among the brands that will benefit Cakewalk, and vice-versa. 

"Sonar X4 Power" was published November 26, 2014 but is not yet available in stores. Software will soon follow.
 
Format: Trade Paperback
Dimensions: 500 pages, 10 × 8 × 0.68 in
Published: November 26, 2014
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Language: English

ISBN - 10: 1305493583
ISBN - 13: 9781305493582

 

 

Paul P
Are you talking to us from the future ?

Stock tips, please?

It's Halloween. Where is my X4 announcement? :(

pbognar
We can start to panic on Monday.  

Keep watching the skies. You have been warned.

Anderton
Stock tips, please?

Don't fight the Fed.